Word: parleyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three grownups will agree on a list of children's classics. But most grownups who liked to read when they were children can enjoy such a list as was published last week. Peter Parley to Penrod (edited by Jacob Blanck, R. R. Bowker Co., $4.50), the joint selection of an authority on first editions and leading...
...during the armistice. On the top of the hill, between a row of Japanese soldiers on one side and Russians on the other, the commanders met and argued from noon to 6:15 p. m. The officers reached a verbal agreement but signed no map at this parley, and the troops on each side moved back 90 yards, leaving the top of Changkufeng Hill again completely vacant...
Cabbage & Compote. In Vienna last week, first intimate details of Chancellor Schuschnigg's recent parley with Chancellor Hitler at Berchtesgaden (TIME, Feb. 28) became known. During lunch Vegetarian Hitler ate cooked red cabbage as his pièce de résistance, consumed a fruit compote for dessert. Dr. Schuschnigg and the others consumed cold lobster and "fresh asparagus grown under sun lamps," the Germans said. The talk at luncheon, following the two Chancellors' private conference and agreement, was of horse breeding mainly. The Austrian Chancellor's entourage considered it in bad taste that a high German...
...moment on the doorstep. Then a surge of enthusiastic Irishmen swept away a line of police and pranced beside the car of departing Eamon de Yalera, Prime Minister of the new state of Eire (TIME, Jan. 24. et ante), who had just concluded a three-day peace parley with Britain...
Partition. Both sides were forewarned that the question of a united Ireland would prove the stumbling block of the session. "The British Government," purred Prime Minister Chamberlain, in opening the parley, "would be happy to see Ireland reunited, but only with the consent of Ulster and only as the result of a direct agreement between the two governments now existing in Ireland.'' "Thirty-two counties* or nothing," was de Valera's firm retort. But there was a diplomatic gleam in his eye as he added that unity of Ireland is "the essential foundation for the establishment...